Are you interested in the natural sciences and want to look beyond the boundaries of a single discipline? Or do you want to focus on one discipline and become an expert in that specific field?

The Maastricht Science Programme offers you the opportunity to explore the natural sciences and to build a unique academic profile based on your personal interests and ambitions. Every semester, your personal academic advisor guides you in selecting courses from fields as diverse as biology, chemistry, mathematics, physics, neuroscience and various interdisciplinary fields such as biomedical engineering and entrepreneurship. You can focus on a single discipline, or you can combine multiple disciplines in a single degree.

Why this programme?

Our global society is facing complex challenges in diverse areas such as energy, life sciences, nutrition, materials and the transition to a more sustainable economy. Many of these challenges are interdisciplinary, requiring a new generation of scientists who are capable of looking across traditional boundaries between scientific disciplines.

Why Maastricht Science Programme?

• Unique innovative programme in the natural sciences
• Personalised study programme consisting of one or more disciplines
• Your dedicated academic advisor
• Small-scale and student-centered via Problem-Based Learning
• Strong focus on research at our state-of-the-art laboratory facilities
• Start an extracurricular research project
• Embedded in the region interacting with businesses and organisations
• Preparation for master’s programmes at highly ranked universities
• International academic community within an excellent research university

Unique programme:

At Maastricht Science Programme, we introduce a new approach to education in the natural sciences that is based on the Liberal Arts and Sciences tradition. Gone are the conventional disciplinary boundaries. We challenge you to create your own curriculum, chosen from a wide range of disciplines, guided by advisors and driven by your own skills, interests and ambitions.

Your academic advisor:

As members of the Maastricht Science Programme teaching staff, our academic advisors understand both the academic environment of the programme and your future professional environment in the natural sciences. They’re committed to helping you in all matters relating to your curriculum choices, course registrations, preparing for your future career, dealing with a disability and many more study-related issues.

Your academic advisor will guide you throughout your studies in making choices that fit your personal interests, ambitions and progress. Our advisors can help you answer questions such as: 

• What are my talents and interests and how can I translate those into a future career?
• Which courses will help me reach my goals?
• Should I pursue other academic options, for example by taking courses at another faculty or another university (in the Netherlands or abroad)?
• How should I prepare for a master’s programme? Or the labour market?